VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 502 515
Rank change year-on-year -90 +13 +61
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 88 57 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.55% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 42 28
10th Percentile £372 £401 £435
25th Percentile £483 £493 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +12.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £567
90th Percentile £769 £661 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £628 £525
% change year-on-year -14.94% +19.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £69.08 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,366 10,381 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 31.49% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,555 6,488 6,788
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £443 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 857 628
10th Percentile £17.17 £17.87 £17.59
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.99
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72.54 £43.25 £68.19
90th Percentile £88.50 £70.06 £75.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -52.10% -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -92 81 £558 -5.91% 43
UK excluding London -61 73 £534 -14.94% 27
Work from Home -48 32 £570 +18.44% 17
South East -49 30 £610 -6.15% 7
North of England -56 14 £485 -3.00% 7
West Midlands -35 10 £425 +16.44%
Midlands -37 10 £425 +16.44% 4
North West -43 10 £484 - 5
East of England -22 9 £507 -9.97% 1
South West -39 8 £644 +6.40% 6
London -90 7 £659 +31.80% 13
Yorkshire -33 4 £519 +3.80% 2
Scotland -23 2 £298 +32.22% 1

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.41%) Apache
1 3 (3.41%) CloudStack
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) Azure
2 21 (23.86%) AWS
3 9 (10.23%) GitHub
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.95%) GCP
5 6 (6.82%) IaaS
5 6 (6.82%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.27%) Datadog
8 2 (2.27%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (31.82%) VSAN
2 19 (21.59%) DNS
3 17 (19.32%) Firewall
4 11 (12.50%) DHCP
5 10 (11.36%) NAS
5 10 (11.36%) SAN
6 8 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 8 (9.09%) WAN
7 7 (7.95%) LAN
7 7 (7.95%) VPN
8 5 (5.68%) SD-WAN
8 5 (5.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (4.55%) BGP
9 4 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (4.55%) IPsec
9 4 (4.55%) MPLS
9 4 (4.55%) OSPF
9 4 (4.55%) VLAN
10 3 (3.41%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.27%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) VMware Engineer
2 21 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (21.59%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) Architect
5 9 (10.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Lead
7 7 (7.95%) VMware Specialist
8 6 (6.82%) Administrator
8 6 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Network Architect
9 5 (5.68%) JavaScript Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.68%) PowerShell Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.68%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.73%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.27%) OpenGL
3 2 (2.27%) Qt
4 1 (1.14%) JSON
4 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 23 (26.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (15.91%) Replication
4 13 (14.77%) Private Cloud
5 12 (13.64%) Public Cloud
6 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
7 8 (9.09%) Clustering
8 5 (5.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (3.41%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (3.41%) EMC VNX
10 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (2.27%) CUDA
11 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 2 (2.27%) PKI
12 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
12 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.64%) Windows
2 29 (32.95%) Windows Server
3 19 (21.59%) Linux
4 5 (5.68%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (5.68%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.27%) VMS
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.95%) Disaster Recovery
2 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (23.86%) Project Delivery
5 20 (22.73%) High Availability
5 20 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (21.59%) Capacity Planning
7 18 (20.45%) Migration
7 18 (20.45%) Network Virtualisation
8 17 (19.32%) Agile
8 17 (19.32%) ITIL
9 16 (18.18%) DevOps
10 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
10 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (13.64%) Business Continuity
12 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (11.36%) Load Balancing
13 10 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (10.23%) Roadmaps
14 9 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.59%) PowerShell
2 32 (36.36%) Python
3 15 (17.05%) Bash
4 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 59 (67.05%) Security Cleared
2 39 (44.32%) SC Cleared
3 30 (34.09%) VCAP
4 25 (28.41%) DV Cleared
5 24 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (19.32%) Azure Certification
7 16 (18.18%) MCSE
8 14 (15.91%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (13.64%) Degree
10 11 (12.50%) MCSA
11 10 (11.36%) AWS Certification
11 10 (11.36%) CCNP
12 6 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (4.55%) CCNA
14 4 (4.55%) RHCA
15 3 (3.41%) CCA
15 3 (3.41%) CCIE
15 3 (3.41%) Citrix Certification
15 3 (3.41%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.55%) NCSC
2 3 (3.41%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 67 (76.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (48.86%) VMware ESXi
3 41 (46.59%) vSphere
4 36 (40.91%) VMware NSX
5 15 (17.05%) Hyper-V
6 13 (14.77%) Active Directory
6 13 (14.77%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (9.09%) Docker
8 4 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (3.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (3.41%) SRDF
10 2 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.27%) NFS
10 2 (2.27%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (42.05%) vCenter Server
2 36 (40.91%) Ansible
3 20 (22.73%) Kubernetes
4 16 (18.18%) vRealize
5 10 (11.36%) PowerCLI
6 8 (9.09%) vMotion
7 6 (6.82%) SCCM
8 5 (5.68%) Grafana
8 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (4.55%) Podman
10 3 (3.41%) Check_MK
10 3 (3.41%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (3.41%) Istio
10 3 (3.41%) SCOM
10 3 (3.41%) SnapMirror
11 2 (2.27%) Argo
11 2 (2.27%) OPNET
11 2 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 2 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 88 (100.00%) VMware
2 30 (34.09%) Microsoft
3 23 (26.14%) Cisco
4 9 (10.23%) Broadcom
5 8 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 7 (7.95%) 3PAR
6 7 (7.95%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.68%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.68%) NetApp
7 5 (5.68%) Veeam
8 4 (4.55%) Citrix
8 4 (4.55%) Google
8 4 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (4.55%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.41%) Commvault
9 3 (3.41%) Dell
9 3 (3.41%) EMC
9 3 (3.41%) F5
9 3 (3.41%) SaltStack
9 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow